South Africa halts AstraZeneca vaccine after study questions effectiveness against variant

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South Africa halts use of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine after a small clinical trial suggests that it isn't effective in preventing mild to moderate illness against the country's variant.

South Africa received its first 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine last week and was expected to begin giving jabs to health care workers in mid-February. The disappointing early results indicate that an inoculation drive using the AstraZeneca vaccine may not be useful.Preliminary data from a small study suggested that the AstraZeneca vaccine offers only “minimal protection against mild-moderate disease" caused by the variant in South Africa.

Scientists will be studying whether or not the AstraZeneca vaccine is effective in preventing severe disease and death against the variant, Mkhize said. South Africa will urgently roll out other vaccines to inoculate as many as possible in the coming months, Mkhize said. Other South African scientists on Sunday said the clinical trials for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine show good results against the variant.

 

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Oh Oh !!

Doesnt sound good

Literally my TL right now. So which is it?

Sounds about right

坟地变农田,坟地上盖房子,是事实吧?

I thought Dr. Stella Immanuel had everything under control in Africa with Hydroxychloroquin?

sethuletso I'll guess you also have to wait a bit longer. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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